addict isn't helpless, because he can reduce his suffering by just taking drugs.
Yes. Being an addict has nothing to do with learned helplessness.
you experienced ways of handling your boredom to suffer less,
No. I didn't do anything. Just my suffering turned into apathy and I didn't suffer as much.
Not being able to handle your emotions, to soften them and to have some degree of control over your actions, is IMHO a kind of learned helplessness.
Then update your definition of learned helplesness to match THE definition of learned helplessness. The thing you have in mind is called emotional dysregulation disorder , I think.
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It's not my definition. It's THE definition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Yes. Being an addict has nothing to do with learned helplessness.
No. I didn't do anything. Just my suffering turned into apathy and I didn't suffer as much.
Then update your definition of learned helplesness to match THE definition of learned helplessness. The thing you have in mind is called emotional dysregulation disorder , I think.